AWOC York in ACTION
Our venue is SPARK, 17-21 Piccadilly, York YO1 9PB (the container shopping centre across the road from Merchant Adventurers Hall).
We welcome people in person as well as online. Since July 2021 Spark has kindly lent us their community studio upstairs (there is a lift). We can meet at 1pm and order snacks from their many food stalls. The picnic tables are under awnings with plenty of fresh air around - and heaters in winter.
Our meetings are from 2-4pm on the second Wednesday of the month. Give me a ring with any queries: Sue on 01904 488870.
For details of upcoming and past meetings, please go to our Meetings page.
Hope you can join us - in person or on zoom!!!
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INSPIRED BY...?
You have a choice of two workshops in March 2025
(both are 2-4pm on Zoom or in person at Spark York)
Sat. 8 March as part of York International Women's Week
(www.yorkwomen.org.uk) by the Real People Theatre for all women
and our AWOC York monthly meeting
Wed. 12 March
All awocs and allies welcome!
The aim is to record who or what has inspired us over the years and how that has affected us.
If you like, Sue could add your story to a video to join other speakers and workshops on her small YouTube channel - ListerInteractions.
Contact Sue for the Zoom links: hello@awocyork.org.uk
We're thinking about you -
no need to feel lonely
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We are a group for people who have not had children
or whose children are unable to support us.
We meet in person and online on the second Wednesday of each month at
SPARK, 17-21 Piccadilly, York YO1 9PB
(the container shopping centre across the road from Merchant Adventurers Hall)
and on Zoom.
For details of upcoming and past meetings, please go to our Meetings page.
Call Sue Lister on 01904-488-870 to find out more
or click here to join our mailing list.
ABOUT US
Ageing Without Children (the national charity is at awoc.org.uk) was started by Kirsty Woodard around 2015 to address the challenges faced by the growing numbers of awocs, challenges that largely go overlooked by the media and government policy.
Inspired by a meeting with her in Leeds, Sue Lister and her partner, Ann Murray, launched monthly meetings in York in January 2016. The Cross Keys on Goodramgate kindly provided the use of their private downstairs accessible room. About a dozen people attend regularly and the circulation list of AWOC York now tops 280 who receive Sue’s detailed notes. View our upcoming meetings here.
At every presentation we have asked people to share their own circumstances as an awoc – what is life like for them at this time? These experiences throw light on the loneliness and isolation that have been invisible until AWOC began. Hundreds of mini stories have been collected, like the ones we took to London to the meeting with the All Party Parliamentary Group on Housing and Care for Older People in February 2017, which you can read here.
AWOC York is run by Sue Lister and her partner Ann Murray.
The organisation is self-supporting and people volunteer their time, skills and donations to make sure it survives and thrives - such as Stef, who created this website!
If you would like to support us, donations can be made to our account at the
Skipton Building Society, 35 Parliament St, York YO1 8RU, or any Skipton branch:
ACCOUNT DETAILS
Account Name: Ttees For AWOC York
Skipton York Sort Code: 20 78 91
Skipton York Account Number: 70798924
Ttees For AWOC York account – Reference: 926449072
Sue and Ann are also the founders of the Real People Theatre, a women's theatre company. You can find out more about the company and NO KIDDING?, its show for York International Women's Week on the theme of ageing without children, here.
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